From Beijing With Love (1994)
About the Author: Paul Andolina was looking for a Bond movie for this month and found a great example of a foreign take on the spy film. You can check out his blogs Wrestling with Film and Is the Dad Alive? for more. I’m probably not the most qualified person to write about Bond parodies as I’ve seen so […]
Fathom (1967)
From Batman to Manimal, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Love American Style, Mission: Impossible and movies like The Rescue of Gilligan’s Island and Batman: The Movie, if something needed to be directed for TV, Leslie H. Martinson was your guy. Fathom is based on a series of books by Larry Forrester. It was made thanks to the […]
Ghost (2020)
In this emotionally rewarding, scruffy London-based crime drama, ex-mob thug Tony Ward (the excellent Anthony Mark Streeter) finds himself a free man after a decade-long prison stretch. He soon discovers the incarceration the outside world offers is as difficult as the inside kind when his well-intentioned efforts to reconnect with his estranged wife and now […]
Operation St. Peter’s (1967)
This movie was a Italian, French and West German co-production. It was released in France as Au Diable les Anges (To Hell With the Angels) and Germany as Die Abenteuer des Kardinal Braun (The Adventure of Cardinal Brown). It’s also an unofficial sequel to Operazione San Gennaro, a heist-comedy film that Dino Risi directed. This […]
The Wrecking Crew (1968)
Directed by Phil Carlson (Walking Tall, Ben), the last of the Matt Helm movies dispenses with screenwriter Herbert Baker, James Gregory as MacDonald and Beverly Adams as Lovey Kravesit. Thanks to Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood, this is probably the best known of the four Matt Helm movies (not to mention the Tony Franciosa-starring TV series). Matt […]
The In-Between (2020)
“Please don’t make this another metaphor for your body.““If the clothes fit. . . .”— Mads and Junior What do you get when you take a 65-page screenplay written over a weekend that’s tossed into a car (okay, two cars) with four people traveling 4500 miles for 14 days from Los Angeles to Las Vegas […]
Facing East (2019)
With over 100,000 documented disturbed burials, the owners and operators of Louisville, Kentucky’s Eastern Cemetery reused the same graves over and over, taking advantage of low-income families. 25 years after the cemetery was left abandoned, the Friends of Eastern Cemetery was formed to take care of the graves, so that those buried there would at […]
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Roger Spottiswoode directed Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, which does not seem like a movie that would prepare you for making a Bond film. Nonetheless, this is a fine offering, particularly because of Michelle Yeoh, who plays Chinese spy Colonel Wai Lin. This time, Bond is up against Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce), a media mogul […]
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